Textile Recycler, a member of the Secondary Materials and Recycled Textiles Association (SMART), the international trade association of the for-profit used clothing reuse and recycling industry, diverts more than half a million pounds of clothing and 10,000 pounds of shoes each week from landfills with the use of automated sorting systems

Building on the strength of their previous collaborations Kirk Nix and Robert Allen Contract unveiled their third collection of hospitality fabrics. The duo’s first collaboration, was released in 2012 at the annual HD Expo tradeshow, where it won the HD-IIDA Product Excellence award

Although sales of textiles machinery have fallen in 2013 and in 2014, those gathered at the annual general meeting of the Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers (ACIMIT) showed optimism